3) Practice of offender profiling in JapanThe main aim of this study was to determine the current situation of offender profiling in Japan. To evaluate offender profiling comprehensively, a national survey of 156 people responsible for offender profiling between 2011 and 2012 was conducted. The results revealed that police professionals from various backgrounds were engaged in profiling in Japan; 76% were police investigators, and 19% were professionals at forensic science laboratories engaged in psychological work. Regarding the utilization of profiling results in police investigations, 46% of profiling ‘led to identification of offender’. Accurately inferring an offender’s profile was found to be between 72% (means of transportation) and 100% (sex). http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1461355717714001